SWNOVELXO Chapter 0
Prologue: Demon? Revolver? Justice Execution!
“Recently, the final trial concerning the bullying incident involving a third-year high school student from the city's First High School has already concluded. In view of the defendant having undergone a forensic medical examination, being diagnosed with a mental illness, and due to being completely unable to recognize their own actions, the court sentenced the defendant to not bear criminal responsibility, and ordered the family or guardian to provide strict supervision and medical treatment. Next is the on-site interview…”
“Impossible! How could that little beast have a mental illness!? If he had a mental illness, how could he do that kind of thing to my daughter!? I don’t accept it! I want to appeal!”
“Sir, please calm down, put down the stool in your hand first… Cough cough, the situation on site is a bit chaotic, the victim's family is quite agitated, it seems they completely cannot accept this result…
Eh! The defendant and the defendant's family have come out! Quick, quick, quick, cameraman, keep up! Mr. Li! What are your thoughts on your son being exempted from criminal responsibility due to mental illness? Right now, there are many netizens online saying this is you deliberately falsifying things…”
“Cough, let me clarify. I deeply regret what my son did, but it is also an undeniable fact that my son was diagnosed with a mental illness. After all, the appraisal was done by the hospital's forensic doctor. What tricks could I possibly play (laughs)?”
“Mr. Li, Mr. Li, one more question…”
…
Inside a completely enclosed, dim room, only a television, continuously playing news reports, was lit. The light from the television was the only light source in the room, serving a slight illumination function and in the center of the room, there was a large white table. At one end of the table sat a youth who looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old. The youth's face showed terror, and from time to time, he would glance at the content on the television with furtive eyes, looking as if he dared not even breathe.
He was precisely the protagonist of the report just now, the “mental patient” who had been judged by the court two days prior not to bear criminal responsibility.
He was also the… “demon” who had committed the act of bullying a classmate with cruel methods, even causing physical disability.
But now, opposite him, a true demon sat at the same table with him, smiling.
“Remember now? Dear ‘mental patient’ classmate? You seem quite lucid, at least you can recognize… what kind of environment you are currently in.“
The goat-headed, human-bodied demon slowly opened its mouth.
Its head was a massive goat skull, and burning inside the skull was the hellfire symbolizing terror—two flames flickered in its eye sockets, looking quite intimidating.
“Mon… Monster, you you you you… What exactly do you, want!?”
The youth stammered, clearly terrified to the extreme at this moment. This appearance was a world apart from the spirited youth who had walked out of the courthouse two days ago.
“Nothing much… Just lamenting, your father really spoils you, doesn't he… First, mobilizing all his connections to get you a certificate of mental illness to absolve you of guilt, then spending a fortune to bribe the media to control public opinion. Let me guess… if it weren't for my sudden visit today, you would probably be on a plane to study abroad in two days, right?”
The demon smilingly recounted all the events that had happened to the youth and accurately predicted the youth's future possibilities and in its conjecture, it was wrong about only one thing—the youth's flight abroad was supposed to be this afternoon…
“Ah… what a lamentable tragedy… I’ve seen that girl, the girl you insulted and bullied. She was so intelligent and lovely. If it weren't for you, she should have been able to live a very happy life, right? Living happily, eventually departing without regrets, ascending to Heaven, receiving the blessings of those birdmen (angels), and finally reincarnating joyfully, starting her next story… But now, youth who could well be called a demon, you’ve ruined all of that, haven’t you? Truly an unforgivable villain—”
“And villains, they must go to hell!”
The flames in the goat-headed demon’s eye sockets stared fixedly at the youth. Being watched like this, the youth trembled even more violently. He cried and begged the demon in a near-collapse tone: “Please! Please! Don’t kill me, don’t kill me! My dad can give you a lot of money, lots and lots of money!”
“You… have you misunderstood something?”
The goat-headed demon tilted its head and asked the youth back in a puzzled tone.
“I am a demon, you know! All the money and power in the human world are meaningless to me! Including your hypocritical judgment, heh, what I hate the most, is precisely beasts like you.”
Saying this, the goat-headed demon stood up. With a flash of fire in its hand, a revolver covered in strange red patterns appeared out of thin air in its hand.
The demon spun the revolver’s cylinder and smilingly aimed the muzzle at the youth.
“No no no!!! Please, don’t kill me! I still have so many things I haven’t done! My wonderful life has just begun, I haven’t enjoyed enough blessings yet! How can it end here!?”
The youth was scared to tears, snot and tears smearing his face chaotically. The crotch of his pants inexplicably became wet, revealing the youth’s incomparable fear at this moment.
“Truly shameful… Oh well, although my purpose in coming this time is to take you where you belong (Hell), seeing as you are still young, I’ll give you a chance.”
Saying this, the demon tossed the handgun in its hand in front of the youth.
“Before coming, I asked the great Lord of Hell, Satan, for six lucky lots. If the next six bullets in the handgun all misfire, you can live.”
The demon said nonchalantly. Upon hearing this, the mournful expression on the youth’s face intensified. He tremblingly picked up the handgun and asked in disbelief.
“A revolver… misfiring?”
“Mm, that’s right… If the next six bullets all misfire, it means that rascal Satan is itching for a beating… Pah, I mean, Lord Satan doesn’t want you to die yet, so you can naturally live. However, I must remind you, don’t get any funny ideas. That handgun is specially made; it can even kill angels. You must, consider carefully～”
The demon said with a pleased expression, it seemed to really enjoy the youth’s desperate emotions at this moment.
The youth, however, could only look at the faintly warm handgun in his hand, wishing he could swallow a hundred bottles of regret medicine, his heart filled with such regret.
What to do? To fire or not to fire? If I don’t fire, I’ll definitely be taken back to Hell by this goat-headed man to suffer endless torture! But if I fire… Bro, a revolver misfiring, are you kidding me?
Wait, it just said this gun can even kill angels, does that mean…Suddenly, a bold idea gradually formed in the youth’s mind.
He continued to feign composure, tremblingly aimed the revolver at his own forehead, and then… suddenly, he violently turned the muzzle towards the unprepared demon in front of him and ruthlessly pulled the trigger!
“Bang!”
The bullet, wreathed in flame patterns, shot through the demon’s skull without any suspense.
The youth clearly saw a look of disbelief in the flickering flames in the demon’s eye sockets, and then those flames quickly dimmed… until they were completely extinguished.
The demon’s tall body fell to the ground like that, motionless, completely devoid of life.
“Ha… Ha… I did it? I sur…vived?”
The youth suddenly felt as if a lifetime had passed. He gripped the special revolver in his hand, the terror on his face swept away, replaced by unprecedented arrogance and joy.
“Yes, you did it. You successfully found the only path to death.”
Suddenly, a tender and sweet voice sounded in the dim room.
The youth was slightly stunned and subconsciously looked ahead—the demon’s massive body had unknowingly disappeared, replaced by a… cute girl about 1.4 meters tall, with brilliant long purple hair, and a pair of colorful demon wings on her waist.
To be precise, a good-looking Miss Demon.
Miss Demon glanced at the dazed youth and sighed.
“You… Wha—!”
The youth was about to say something, but he suddenly felt a wave of dizziness in his head, his body unable to exert any strength, and his forehead throbbed with a piercing pain.
He used all his remaining strength to lift his hand and touched his forehead.
What he touched was only a terrifying, thumb-sized bloody hole.
The youth fell down in despair, fresh blood flowing wantonly from the bullet hole in his forehead, dyeing the entire floor red. and Miss Demon, who stood before him and witnessed all this, showed no emotion on her face. She even walked forward and kicked the youth’s corpse twice.
“What a pity, you didn’t have to die… I clearly reminded you, don’t try to be too clever. Young people nowadays… truly pitiful～”